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Film festival focuses on Africa, April 24-28

Posted April 21, 2006; 10:58 a.m.

by Sunshine Yin

"Africa, Diaspora and Social Change" is the theme of a film
festival scheduled for Monday through Friday, April 24-28, on campus.

The festival will explore the dynamic processes of migration and
globalization currently taking place around the African continent, as
seen through the lens of cinematic representation. Each session will
begin at 6:30 p.m. with an introductory lecture, followed by a film and
a question-and-answer period. The screenings will be in 101 Friend
Center on Monday through Wednesday and in the Stewart Film Theater at
185 Nassau St. on Thursday and Friday.

The festival will open on Monday with a showing of "Kelele," a
documentary made by Princeton junior J.D.M. Williams and Mahiri Mwita,
a lecturer in comparative literature, about their experiences with
AIDS/HIV activism in a Kenyan village. The schedule also includes
recent works from Morocco, Senegal and South Africa, among others.

Speakers at the screenings will include Williams and Mwita, as well as
Princeton faculty members Simon Gikandi, Emmanuel Kreike and Aissata
Sidikou-Morton. Professors Jimia Boutouba of Swarthmore College and
Samba Gadjigo of Mount Holyoke College and filmmakers Cindy and Ian
Gabriel and Yasmine Kassari also will participate.

The free festival is funded by the Program in African Studies, the
University Center for Human Values, the Davis Center for Historical
Studies, the Department of English, the Department of History, the
Office of the President, the Princeton Institute for International and
Regional Studies and the Program in the Study of Women and Gender.